Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss <at> iguanasuicide.net> writes: > >I'd rather do > >aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages > >Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A' > >(note the space) > > Actually, it only works in that case. Of course, because of the search > terms, all the packages will have status 'i A'.
That's what I meant. Now... I've been playing a little bit with this. First, I get some warning: Unknown type error, skipping line using debconf-set-selections < ... While that does not worry me much, I get a xargs: aptitude: exited with status 255; aborting at the end of xargs -r -- aptitude markauto < ... Probably, this is because conflicts are generated, however there were/are no conflicts on the original system. Of and BTW you had better use: #dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install"' > ... (Note the *two* equality signs) I was wondering where all those unnecessary conflicts were coming from ;-) I need to say that sometimes I feel a bit dazzled by all these tools dselect dpkg apt-get aptitude .... After a dpkg --set-selections I have to use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' instead of 'apt-get upgrade'. However, the standard 'aptitude install' works fine and seems to know about the --set-selections. I am not clear what kind of information is available to what kind of tool. I guess the auto flag of aptitude is exclusive to aptitude, otherwise we would not have to set it manually. I guess one has got to have the overview over all that first.... ~.~ Oh and I guess to make things really right one would have to use --get-selections '*' during the backup, or an additional dpkg --clear-selections before the restore. Just a thought. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
